DC Comics · Batman #431 · March 1989 · $0.75 · 32 pages
Grade: NM 9.4
Cover by George Pratt, as credited on the cover spine.
James Owsley scripts, Jim Aparo pencils, Mike DeCarlo inks. This is the Aparo Batman — authoritative, angular, built for rooftops and rain-slicked streets. Owsley's run on the title lands between the seismic shifts of Batman: Year One and the coming upheaval of Knightfall, a stretch where the character was being quietly pressure-tested by a rotating stable of writers before Grant Morrison and others redefined the territory entirely.
Specific story title and plot details for this issue are not confirmed in our research. What is confirmed: Aparo on interiors, Owsley on script, DeCarlo on inks — a credible Copper Age Batman package.
George Pratt's cover credit here is a footnote worth knowing — Pratt would go on to paint Enemy Ace: War Idyll for DC just a year later, establishing himself as one of the more distinctive painted-cover artists of the era. His presence on a standard Batman monthly at this moment is slightly out of sequence with his trajectory.
Condition NM 9.4 — .
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DC Comics · Batman #431 · March 1989 · $0.75 · 32 pages
Grade: NM 9.4
Cover by George Pratt, as credited on the cover spine.
James Owsley scripts, Jim Aparo pencils, Mike DeCarlo inks. This is the Aparo Batman — authoritative, angular, built for rooftops and rain-slicked streets. Owsley's run on the title lands between the seismic shifts of Batman: Year One and the coming upheaval of Knightfall, a stretch where the character was being quietly pressure-tested by a rotating stable of writers before Grant Morrison and others redefined the territory entirely.
Specific story title and plot details for this issue are not confirmed in our research. What is confirmed: Aparo on interiors, Owsley on script, DeCarlo on inks — a credible Copper Age Batman package.
George Pratt's cover credit here is a footnote worth knowing — Pratt would go on to paint Enemy Ace: War Idyll for DC just a year later, establishing himself as one of the more distinctive painted-cover artists of the era. His presence on a standard Batman monthly at this moment is slightly out of sequence with his trajectory.
Condition NM 9.4 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
